Preeti Shenoy is an Indian writer born and raised in India.
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Preeti Shenoy, India’s child prodigy was born on December 21, 1971 in Kerela, India and has 14 bestselling books to her credit. He was educated at different Kendriya Vidyalayas in India. He got his 11th 12th from Kendriya Vidyalaya Girinagar and graduated in commerce from St. Teresa. The popular author has been consistently nominated for the list of the 100 most influential celebrities in Forbes, since 2013. Since his childhood, he has been interested in art, thus used to draw and paint. He is a self-taught painter. He has been a bestselling author for a while now. The author debuted in 2008 with the successful book, 34 Bubblegums and Candles. He is often named among the first people to do creative non-fiction.
Family
The author lost his father KVJ Kamath in 2006 and his mother Priya Kamath currently lives in Kerala. The writer seems to care about family. He spends a lot of time with them and appreciates the close bond with his family.
Rare childhood photos of Preeti Shenoy with her father
Preeti Shenoy with mother
Husband & Son
Preeti is married to Satish Shenoy an auditor, who serves as head of General Insurance in Norwich, UK as a chartered accountant. He has a daughter and a son, Apurva Shenoy and Atul Shenoy respectively.
Preeti Shenoy with husband Satish Shenoy and pets
Preeti Shenoy with her children
Religion/Religious Views
Preeti Shenoy is an Indian Hindu.
Career
The current bestseller began with her blog ’21 Days of Positivity’ to escape and cope with the loss of her father in 2006. Mourning the loss and talking about coping with the loss and her blog she said,
I lost him (his father) in 2006, but for anyone dealing with grief, I can tell you one thing, the pain never goes away, you just learn to manage it better and you learn to live your daily life but every happy memory will be pinched with sadness from now on and that is something you have to accept.
Blogging soon turned into writing for newspaper columns. He has contributed stories to the Chicken Soup series. Followed by poetry until the book. The first book he wrote was based on a piece of creative non-fiction from a newspaper column he once wrote. This book was a huge success and was translated into many languages including Turkish. The author’s career has been a beautiful journey with nothing but success but Preeti says her book had to face rejection before she became the bestseller it is today.
I faced countless rejections for my second book, which did well later and was even translated into various Indian languages as well as Turkish. I am happy that my book has been translated into Marathi, Hindi, Malayalam and Telugu, to name a few, and has been well received across the country. I am appreciated by people from all backgrounds and that is humbling and amazing. The journey so far has been great. I have worked hard to get where I am.
The author says no matter where one is in their career, rejection hurts but having faith in yourself is important. The author’s first book, ‘Bubblegums and Candies’ is a funny and interesting book consisting of incidents inspired by his own life. It came out in 2008, he revised the book in 2018 creating another best seller adding perspective to his debut book called, ‘Love A Little Stronger’. Talking about his book ‘Why We Love The Way We Do’ in 2015, he shared his inspiration about how important it is to get out of one’s comfort zone also reflecting how he feels about young people.
I can relate to young people very well because I understand and understand them,” he said. “I think most people don’t understand them. I was reading a book called ‘The Teenage Brain’ by Dr Frances Jensen recently which I can relate to. Jensen is a neuroscientist and has analyzed adolescent brains and I found the book interesting. And, then my presence on social media is incidental. I always had a blog before I became a writer and I was on social media.
She had blogged before becoming India’s best-selling female author. He has produced the best and best work that he appreciates because of his understanding of his readers. He says people would rather read something they can relate to than read about a faraway foreign land. He also said his passion to work as hard or harder than the men in the game was unwavering, after writing the book marketing was just as important. All his books have been very successful. he felt very inspired by Ruskin Bond’s writing style. The author challenges himself with his new book, ‘The magic mindset’ while moving away from his writing style. He felt this was not only a milestone in his career but a legacy he wanted for two children who could read it because he felt it was a practical guide, unlike other self-help books. It is light and further explains that the book is not a messiah of hope, ignoring the basic reality of life. Instead it is a self-help book with a pragmatic approach to achieving a happier life.
Awards, Honors, Achievements
- Preeti Shenoy won the ‘Indian of the Year’ award in 2017 in New Delhi. The event was organized by Brand Academy.
Preeti Shenoy was awarded The Indian of the Year
- He is also a recipient of the Business Excellence Award instituted by the New Delhi Institute of Management.
About Plagiarism
Preeti has strong opinions, regarding plagiarism when her fellow writer Chetan Bhagat is accused of stealing other people’s work. He was seen saying that the easiest thing to do is to accuse people of plagiarism, but coincidences are not so rare in the world of writers. He supports Bhagat by saying that it is not strange for the plots to match as he himself was working on a book when he came across the work of an Irish writer, almost identical to his, after reading a synopsis that he knew. He had to scrape the entire hard work of 25000 words. The allegations made against Bhagat came from Anvita Bajpai who claimed that she had gifted him, her book in Banglore litfest 2014. Bhagat’s book was based on one of his short stories. He further supported Chetan Bhagat by saying that writers hardly have time to read the work presented to them until it becomes a close friend or a dear friend. To him this seemed very wrong but as usual he said, the plots very often matched. after admitting that he could not read the book that was given to him, the author often left it in the hotel room. He signed off saying justice should be done and he agreed with his fellow author Tuhin Sinha who said,
“Banning a book until the judgment is decided is abhorrent.”
Favourite
- Author: Ruskin Bond, Kiran Nagarkar. Preeti’s other favorites are Audrey Niffenegger, Roald Dahl’s works for adults, Michael Morpurgo, Daniel Glattauer, Mary Ann Shaffer and Liane Moriarty.
- Book: The Time Traveller’s Wife
- Movie: Shawshank Redemption
Facts/Trivia
- Preeti loves animals very much, she has a pet dog and also takes care of 3 stray kittens. The pet, she shared was gifted by her Husband Satish, she named Lostris, after the character Wilbur Smith, who happened to be one of Preeti’s favorite authors.
Preeti Shenoy with her pet kitten
Preeti Shenoy with her pet Lostris.
- She is a fitness enthusiast and doesn’t let her age define her.
- Preeti wants to bungee jump one day and also wants to live in the Himalayas for a month participating in a yoga camp and living a tough life.
- Shenoy’s daughter Apurva Shenoy has designed the book cover for her mother and the author has also included some illustrations of the former in her book.
- Preeti Shenoy looks back on her time in confinement and describes it as a time for introspection and self-reflection.
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Source: SCHOOL TRANG DAI
